8 Year Old Chess Prodigy Defeats Multiple Chess Masters at Once in France
Samuel Reshevsky, at age eight, giving a simultaneous exhibition in France, 1920. He defeated everyone in this picture.
Samuel Reshevsky, at age eight, giving a simultaneous exhibition in France, 1920. He defeated everyone in this picture.
ajacenna, an artist from Rotterdam, can complete up to six illustrations at the same time-two for each hand, and one for each foot.
Jamie Mohr was given a 10% chance of survival when he was born prematurely at 28 weeks-and now he's a genius prodigy at age 4.
He beat out the previous record holder by 4 months after defeating Poland's Jacek Stopa, 37, in round four of the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open.
This 18-year-old brainiac has just been awarded Google's Science Fair Grand Prize for his ingenious method of collecting microplastics from water.
Eddie Adams struggled with his 5 siblings and single mom in a homeless shelter. Never did he dream of being on stage as the lead cellist in an orchestra.
Matthew Whitaker is a blind piano prodigy whose unique neurological state could help scientists better understand the human brain.
This week, 21-year-old Sho Yano will complete the journey he began as a 9-year-old college freshman, becoming one of the youngest students in history to receive an M.D. He earned his PhD at age 19 and will now launch a medical career as a pediatric neurologist so he can work with children. (Video)
Jake Barnett, an Indianapolis 13-year-old, has been acing college math and science courses since he was eight years old. At 13, he is a college sophomore taking honors classes in math and physics, while also doing scientific research and tutoring fellow students.
Aelita Andre is a Russian abstract painter who has already been compared to Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Jackson Pollack -- and she is just four years old. Her parents both paint as a hobby and from the start gave her all the canvas and tubes she needed to express to her heart's content.
6-year old Emily Bear was born to play piano, She has wowed audiences, even recently performing at the White House.
Jackie Evancho, the child wonder soprano who took second place on the fifth season of America's Got Talent, performed for the Obama family and the public outdoors during the lighting of the National Christmas Tree just outside the White House grounds.
15-year-old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz kid in Sierra Leone who has invented or manufactured his own batteries, generators and transmitters for radio broadcasting using spare parts he gathered from trash bins. Completely self-taught, the boy was invited by MIT to visit America recently to expand his horizons.
Quvenzhane Wallis could make Oscar history tonight by taking home the Best Actress statue for her role in the critically acclaimed drama Beasts of the Southern Wild, for which she became the youngest actor ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was 6 years old when she played the part of Hushpuppy, the indomitable child prodigy and survivalist who lives with her dying father in the backwoods squalor of a Louisiana bayou.
She grew up in Kampala, one of the poorest places on earth. She couldn't read or write. As a child, she scrounged for food each day, and without money for school fees, she lived on the streets. But a chance encounter with a Ugandan chess coach turned her into a rising international chess star, the subject of a book -- and the protagonist in a future Disney movie.
A collection of 40 paintings by an 11-year-old boy has sold for more than a half million dollars (£390,000). Kieron Williamson, from Norfolk, England saw his watercolors, oils and pastels sell on Friday in just minutes.
If you felt too lazy to take out the trash this morning or do your taxes on time, check out this Russian prodigy and see what determination can do.
CNN reported on a child artist prodigy who, despite being raised in an athesitic home, describes her vivid visions from the age of four as coming from God.
Florida violinist Kahane is a brilliant musician at only eight-years-old. She has performed at charity events in the past, but when she heard the devastating earthquake in Haiti had destroyed a music school and crushed the violinist who'd founded it, she wanted to help. She started writing letters to famous violinists asking for money to rebuild the school and instruments to fill it.
6-year old Emily Bear was born to play piano -- and started playing at age two. She has wowed audiences, and recently performed at the White House. She even composes her own music.
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